Example sentences for: ousting

How can you use “ousting” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Washington Post lead reports that soldiers in the Ivory Coast mounted a coup d'etat, ousting President Henri Konan Bedie and suspending the country's constitution, courts, and parliament.

  • In the New Republic , Eliot A. Cohen counsels making "ousting Saddam a top priority," and pursuing that objective with airstrikes that "number in the thousands, not hundreds" and lasting over "weeks, not days."

  • Kennedy began his term hoping to establish a new detente with Moscow, but he also sought to rid the Western Hemisphere of communism by ousting Castro.

  • I had formerly been impressed by the argument that ousting Clinton would set a precedent for any party having a sufficient majority in Congress to get rid of any president, which would convert us into a parliamentary democracy.

  • Newsweek says Chinese President Jiang Zemin bolstered his political power by ousting two Politburo rivals at the Communist Party Congress, but his dictatorial style won't mesh with his push for a modern economy.


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